Pp. xxiv, 396. Illus., tables, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $50.00. ISBN: 0807178004 A Detail Look at Field Artillery in the Civil War Earl Hess wanted to know what made Civil War field artillery so ...

The Civil War nearly claimed another casualty after an archaeologist discovered a live artillery round buried ... time such a thing was uncovered on the field. The shell likely dates back to ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

But through research by the Rock Island Arsenal, an article in the Muzzleloading Artillerymen (summer 1983), reviewing Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War (page 54) and the Neponset ...

The third anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be celebrated ... 1857 Napoleon 12-pounder field gun, manufactured by Trail ...

OSAGE — Osage’s two Civil War-era garrison cannons at ... cemetery in what was known as Potter’s Field, the original cement slabs on which the cannons sat since the early 1930s began to ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field sloping ... uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted ...

When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in Legion Park was showing signs of disrepair, they decided to use some of the money they received ...